We had a very productive day today, despite the enormous amounts of rain. We woke up early, took showers, and headed to the bus stop. At the first stop we went inside the Gasson Diamond Factory. It was very cool, we learned about the 4 C's of diamonds and actually saw them polishing and working on diamonds. At the end of our tour, we were taken into a show room where we saw several 100+thousand dollar diamonds as well as some smaller more reasonable ones. Leigh s...

Our first night in Amsterdam...well what can we say...it was interesting. We arrived here between 2:30 and 3pm and easily found our way to the hotel. We have 2 other roommates this time. After we settled in we walked over to the main street and got a bite to eat followed by a trip into the tourism office. The man behind the counter was very helpful and made our decisions on what to do simple. We first signed up for the hop-on hop-off bus tour (it is an easy way t...